Welcome to the Feature & Follow
Increase Blog Followers, gain Book Blog Followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers — but you have to know — the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.
The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to show off more new blogs!
How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools — keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them “hi” in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!
What sets this Hop apart from others, is our Feature. Each week we will showcase a Featured Blogger, from all different genres and areas. Who is our Feature today? Find out below. Just remember it is required, if you participate, to follow our Features and you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) as a courtesy. How do you follow someone? Well, if you have a preference, state it in your #FF post. A lot of blogs are transitioning to WordPress in which they do not have the luxury of GFC, so an RSS subscription is appreciated or if you choose an email subscription. If you don’t have GFC please state in your post how you would like to be followed.
All features are chosen randomly to be the feature. They are not chosen by content or name.
Our Feature Fiction Predictions
When did you start blogging?
Fairly recently, actually. To be more exact, September 22nd, 2012!
What is your favorite part of book blogging?
Tough question – there are just so many things I love about book
blogging! But my favorite part is knowing that somebody is listening
to my opinions, and that I’m helping great books reach new readers
they deserve.
What is your favorite book(s)?
This is going to take a while… Just off the top of my head, they are:
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, a fantasy series that I
feel need much more recognition.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, my first YA novel.
The Curious Incident of the Dog at the Night-time by Mark Haddon.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
(et cetera, et cetera…)
What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?
The best thing that has happened to me since I started book blogging
is being able to connect with other readers and bloggers around the
world and share my love (and obsession) with books. It’s definitely a
welcomed change from ranting and swooning over a book alone! Not to
mention that all the people I met have been nothing but warm and
welcoming, so book blogging itself is a great experience for me 
Q: What is a deal breaker for you in a book? For example, do you abhor love triangles? Or can’t deal with bad editing?
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To join the fun and make new book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
- (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
- (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
- Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
- Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say “hi” in your comments and that they are now following you.
- If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
- Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”
- If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers
- If you’re new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!
Happy Follow Friday!
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Hello! I think this idea is really cool. I am new to the whole blog thing so hopefully I figure things out!
Oops guess you need to know where m blog is huh?! Blonde moment…don’t hold it against me, k? My blog is Random Thoughts and Weirdness at yellsworld.blogspot.com
Yeah, bad editing is the worst! Old follower. My FFs are at Musings on Fantasia and LKHill. Happy Friday!
Yes, bad editing is painful. Great question.
I’m a first time feature & follow blogger
Thanks for hosting this along with Alison!
Love the question this week. Bad editing is on my list too. I’ve ran across so many in the past few years that it turns my stomach.
Thanks much for featuring me here, Rachel! And yes, bad editing is just… off-putting. Especially in ebooks.
I was just over at Alisons and I agreed with her about the grammar, here’s the spiel..
I haven’t had many books with bad grammar, but one in particular really did annoy me. When I contacted the Author, she said that she published it without a Beta Reader or a Critique Partner, but was going to re-publish it after she was finished with book 2. I must say that it affected my review of the book though.
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Naomi @ Nomi’s Paranormal Palace
I haven’t had many books with bad grammar, but one in particular really did annoy me. When I contacted the Author, she said that she published it without a Beta Reader or a Critique Partner, but was going to re-publish it after she was finished with book 2. I must say that it affected my review of the book though.
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Naomi @ Nomi’s Paranormal Palace
Bad editing can be annoying, but I haven’t come across a book that has had such horrendous editing.
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Have a GREAT weekend!
Old Follower
Thanks so much for this feature. I agree. Poor editing is very annoying.
New follower.
Poor editing is really annoying! FF
Great question this week. Thanks for always helping us to have fun and get to know each other!
Just thinking about bad editing gives me the heebie jeebies.
Old follower!
Our FF is at Book Sake. –Jessica
I hate bad editing too, especially when they miss simply grammar, spelling, and typos. But it also bothers me when they clearly didn’t read through the text and, say, kill off a character on page 200 and then have him roaming the forest picking berries on page 400. I’m sure writing and editing a book is hard work, but it IS what they’re paid for!
Here’s my Feature and Follow
Hello! Bad editing is really annoying, but if I’m loving a book, I can look past it!
My FF
Good question! I have a lot of pet peeves when it comes to what can make or break a book for me. This is my first FF and am now a new follower.
I can’t stand a spinless, wishy washy, can’t make up her damn mind, no self esteem heroine!
I can look beyond bad editing to a degree.
-Amanda P
Paranormal Romance
Wow I like the question today!!!! Cuz You know I’m a hopeless romantic
I love to comment. Great question and your folowers provided great answers. Just wanted to say hi!
Beth at bethartfromtheheart.blogspot.com . Old follower
I find it difficult to deal with too many point of views, too many characters in just a few pages and plot roles. Also, like you, I don’t find bad edited books very attractive, and this can turn out to be a deal breaker in the end. Love triangles I can deal, but I’m getting tired of reading the same things in romance books…
Maeva
Murphy’s Library